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September 20th

This is a daily game to guide you along your Spiritual Progression Path ™ . Daily Affirmation, Mentation Question, Quote, Scripture and Prayer Read slooowwwly and let the words sink in. It's up to you to find out how they apply to "your" Life.

How do I feel when someone receives or earns more money than me?

"Envy is the ulcer of the soul."

~Socrates

I am provided for in every wonderful, positive and beneficial way.

For a more enriching experience, go down on your knees to pray or take it one step further and prostrate yourself (lay face down) on the floor while praying.

Heavenly Father,
it is symptomatic of our life today
that economics play a large part in it.
People labor zealously for a wage
so that they can acquire the needs of life.

They also work for
the so-called luxuries of life,
for the opportunity to have more leisure
to develop themselves in ways,
and to keep up with
their particular state of life.

Teach me to live within my means
while at the same time
striving to increase those means.
Let me never lose heart
but continue to press on.

Most of all, inspire me
to seek first Your kingdom
in the knowledge that everything else
will be given me together with it.

In Jesus Christ's name I pray,
who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit
One God
forever and ever.

Through Jesus Christ's Precious Blood, Most Sacred Name and Most Holy Face. ~Amen

A reading from the Holy Gospel according to Matthew

Matthew 20:1-16

[Jesus said to them . . . ]

1 "The kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out at dawn to hire laborers for his vineyard.

2 After agreeing with them for the usual daily wage, he sent them into his vineyard.

3 Going out about nine o'clock, he saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

4 and he said to them, 'You too go into my vineyard, and I will give you what is just.'

5 So they went off. (And) he went out again around noon, and around three o'clock, and did likewise.

6 Going out about five o'clock, he found others standing around, and said to them,

'Why do you stand here idle all day?'

7 They answered, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You too go into my vineyard.'

8 When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Summon the laborers and give them their pay, beginning with the last and ending with the first.'

9 When those who had started about five o'clock came, each received the usual daily wage.

10 So when the first came, they thought that they would receive more, but each of them also got the usual wage.

11 And on receiving it they grumbled against the landowner,

12 saying, 'These last ones worked only one hour, and you have made them equal to us, who bore the day's burden and the heat.'

13 He said to one of them in reply, 'My friend, I am not cheating you. Did you not agree with me for the usual daily wage?

14 Take what is yours and go. What if I wish to give this last one the same as you?

15 (Or) am I not free to do as I wish with my own money? Are you envious because I am generous?'

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